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Addams' speech before the National Child Labor Committee in Cincinnati calls for government regulations to protect women and children.

Addams discusses a previous study on newsboys and argues that there are no child labor laws that protect them. These comments were made at the National Child Labor Committee annual meeting in January 1909.

Addams argues for the establishment of a federal bureau for the protection of children, especially regarding the issues of child labor and education. The speech was given before the Fifth National Child Labor Conference, held in Chicago.

Addams addresses the Chicago Business Women's Club on factors that may cause children to grow into "tramps."

Also known as Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903 (excerpt)

An excerpt of the talk given by Addams at the National Conference of Charities and Correction of 1903 on the effects of child labor.

Kennedy asks Addams's secretary to send her a resolution on child labor.

Norton informs Addams to affairs going on in the office concerning the play, Trojan Women, including an issue involving a child actor.

See sends Addams a statement on his opposition to child labor laws.

An unknown correspondent writes Addams about the moral dangers of child labor in the theater.

Woods would like to know Addams' conclusion regarding whether or not to allow children to appear on the theatrical stage.

Lindsey congratulates Addams on the Child Welfare Exhibit and sends his hopes that he will be able to talk to her soon about his stance on the child actor law.

Lindsey asks Addams to meet his friend Winifred Bonfils, who is expected to visit Chicago soon.

Lindsey writes Lathrop about a controversial child labor law, explaining his disagreement with Jane Addams over the issue.

Lindsey apologizes to Owen for any distress following his statement at the Theatrical Benefit and discusses child labor and child actors.

Bates praises Addams for her work to ban child actors from the theater.

Chute and Brown send Addams a telegram regarding the defeat of stage bill in the Illinois Senate.

A 28-page illustrated pamphlet outlining the work and social conditions of newsboys and newsgirls, based on a two-day intensive investigation. In it the Committee proposes revisions in child labor laws to curb the worst excesses.

In Addams' speech before the National Conference of Charities and Correction, she forcefully argues for child labor reform as well as increased education. The speech, given on May 10 in Richmond, VA, was published in the proceedings.

Addams' argues that child labor is the greatest social ill in remarks at the American Humane Association Convention on November 14, 1906. This version was published in December.

Addams describes the plight of child labor and education in Chicago, especially in the case of immigrants.

Addams' draft speech, on child labor and education, given at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Atlanta.

Addams recounts some of the ways child labor has ruined the future of those children exposed to it.

Everett attacks the Child Labor Amendment as un-American, dangerous, and radical and associates the movement with Bolsheviks.

See argues for the abolition of child labor law and maligns social workers and woman suffrage .

Addams discusses the evil effects of child labor on labor practices and education.

A published version of Addams' lecture on March 11 at the National Child Labor Committee Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, in which she presents arguments against an exception to the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Law for child actors and offers some Tolstoyan allegory to buttress her arguments.

Addams discusses the damage that child labor causes children, physically and mentally, and calls for it to be halted.

Addams debates the issue of child labor on the stage with Norman Hapgood, Agnes Repplier, and Otis Skinner at the Contemporary Club in Philadelphia.

Murphy seeks to interest Stanley McCormick and Anita Blaine in joining the National Child Labor Committee.

Murphy writes Addams to tell her that her new book is an inspiration to him and shares some of his own ideas about children and the treatment of African Americans in the North and South.

Davies sends Freund some data regarding factory inspector budgets, manpower, and numbers of inspections from 1893 to 1910.

Davies explains his attitudes about child labor and the misunderstandings about them.

Brown asks Addams for advice about how best to get his research on stage children to Illinois legislators.

Brown offers Addams more information pertinent to the stage child investigation.

Brown informs Addams that the street trades bill she favored failed in the Illinois Senate, but the child stage bill she opposed also failed.

Karsten praises Salewsky's plans and discusses the importance of peace work in these times.

Karsten passes on a letter from the National Child Labor Committee to Abbott.

Matthews sends Addams copies of Children's Bureau literature on child labor to use for her article.

Stewart complains of the poor state of education and asks Addams for a copy of her address to the National Educational Association.

Lord informs Addams that he has been asked to provide citations for the accuracy of his pamphlet, Children of the Stage.

Lord thanks Addams for her feedback on his pamphlet.

Kelley tells Addams how she responded to Alonzo See's attack on child labor legislation and worries over Addams's health.

Kelley gives Addams a sense of the publicity campaign to pass the Child Labor amendment.

Kelley asks Addams to write an article on child labor for McCall's Magazine.

Kelley asks Addams for suggestions of people to send a Survey article about the National Manufacturers' Association.

Sargent explains his inability, as the head of a dramatic school, to support Addams' effort to ban child labor in theaters.

Donaghey writes Bowen about the scheduling of a new hearing to consider Senate Substitute Bill 233, regarding the exemption of child actors from the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Laws.

Abbott writes Addams to discuss the child labor amendment and current politics.

Abbott tells Addams that she thinks it wise to postpone resigning from the Child Labor Committee.

The text of a bill authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical conditions of women and child workers in the United States.

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